The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, expressed his desire to resume contacts with North Korea to guarantee the safety of its nuclear installations, in an interview with the Russian newspaper Izvestia.
“I think we should resume cooperation with the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)”, declared Grossi, an Argentine national, in the interview published on Monday by Izvestia.
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IAEA experts who had been visiting North Korea since 1992 were expelled from the country in April 2009.
That same month, Pyongyang withdrew from international negotiations that began in 2003 on its nuclear program, before carrying out its second nuclear test atomic bomb the next month.
He highlighted that North Korea It has a “very ambitious nuclear program” with a “huge number of nuclear installations, the only ones in the world that are not monitored”.
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Therefore, he said, no one knows whether such facilities meet minimum safety standards.
The head of IAEA He also asked that Iran not repeat the mistakes made with North Koreawhere “all decades-long efforts and negotiations were in vain.”
Source: Elcomercio
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